The Wrong Pong

Steven Butler is a writer, actor, dancer and trained circus performer as well as a keen observer of trolls and their disgusting habits! Having trained at the Italia Conti Academy of Theatre Arts and The Toronto Circus School (in Aerial Ropes), he has starred in Peter Pan, Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat, and as Henry in Horrid Henry Live and Horrid! His future as a writer was almost guaranteed when his primary school headmaster turned out to be the fantastically funny author Jeremy Strong! The Wrong Pong is Steven’s debut novel and before writing this he lived at sea for two years onboard the Disney Cruiseliner.

Chris was born in Colchester in 1958 and has a degree in Fine Art at Newcastle upon Tyne Polytechnic and fell into Illustration by accident. It was by pure chance that he met an illustrator who suggested he join the Association of Illustrators. It was suggested that his style of drawing at the time would suit children's books and through one of the illustrators, (Alan Snow), a meeting was arranged with Ian Butterworth who was then Art Director at Harper/Collins. Other offers began to come in and gradually he had enough work to become a self employed Children's Book Illustrator. He has Illustrated over 80 Books and been shortlisted for several awards for the books he has been involved with. He soon hopes to start writing his own texts, which he feels is long overdue.